Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hearing Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers of Philadelphia accepting $50,000 from an undercover FBI agent posing as an intermediary for a fictitious Arab sheik and, in return, promising to sponsor a bill to enable the sheik to settle in the U.S. The Abscam tapes were first aired in short segments on all network evening newscasts, then in their 3½-hour entirety on the Public Broadcasting Service...
...pleased to pick up some of the pieces as long as they could do so without risking a major confrontation with the U.S. Nonetheless, U.S. intelligence has uncovered no evidence that the Soviets are directly fanning the fighting on the Iranian side by infiltrating arms. The Kremlin, in short, seems to be behaving like a well-heeled but very cautious, very patient gambler?placing bets all over the table, but only ones that it can afford to lose...
...food. Kerosene, the principal cooking and heating fuel, is rationed: 20 liters a week for each family. The government has ordered a halt to the supply of fuel oil to private consumers until further notice. Anticipating a cold winter, people have been buying electric heaters, which are now in short supply. "If the worst fears come true, we shall walk around the house fully dressed," says a telephone company repairman...
...army disaster specialists nonetheless managed to rescue many of the living. On Wednesday, five days after the quake, a ten-month-old baby girl was found hungry but unhurt. Unlike so many children wandering the streets, she was reunited with older sisters and brothers. By then, with water in short supply, sanitation hazards were increasing, and Algerian officials had begun worrying not only about epidemics but about civil disorder. One convoy was raided by villagers, angry that truckloads of food and medicine were constantly passing them by. Armed soldiers were forced to mount patrols to guard against mass looting...
...National Association of Home Builders, predicts that only 1.2 million new housing units will be built this year, the lowest number since 1975. Says James Christian, senior economist of the United States League of Savings Associations: "We are starting the decade about 1 million units a year short. We will have tough years ahead. Marriages will have to be postponed, and young people will have to double up with families. There is little short-term prospect for closing the gap in the housing deficit...